"99% Accurate" Downs Syndrome Test

06 June 2015

A safer test for Down's Syndrome that reduces the risk of miscarriage could soon be available on the Britain's national health service the NHS. The non-invasive procedure is currently only offered privately - and can cost up to 12-hundred pounds. Professor Lyn Chitty - who ran the trial at Great Ormond Street Hospital - says it's not just safer, it's 99 per cent accurate.